Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 30

A charm was in the words, The enchantment of the frost, And so the giant talked on, Freezing with every word, Until Kulóskap fell Into a sleep like death.

Who acts: charm, Until · What happens: be, talk on, freeze, fall, enchant · To what, where: words, giant, word, sleep, frost

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charm, Until), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 charm	det
2	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 words	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 enchantment	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enchantment	det
9	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 frost	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 frost	det
12	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enchantment	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talked	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 talked	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 talked	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talked	obl:unmarked
18	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 words	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 talked	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Freezing	punct
21	Freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 talked	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 word	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Freezing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
26	Until	Until	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fell	nsubj
27	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Until	flat
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 word	acl:relcl
29	Into	into	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sleep	det
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sleep	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	a charm		the words	the enchantment of the frost appos	tree rules
2	talk on	participle	a charm not said here	the giant			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	gerund	a charm not said here			with every word	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with word=Theme
4	fall	past	Until	every word not said here	a sleep like death		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result
5	enchant			the frost			nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 30